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Habitus, dorsal view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Habitus, dorsal view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Habitus, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Head on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): male. (Observation).
Pygofer, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Subgenital plate, ventral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Stylus on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, lateral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): (Observation).
Aedeagus, ventral view on Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998): dorsal view. (Observation).

Descendants and synonyms

Nomenclature (3)

  • Deltocephalus (Recilia) belonus Dash & Viraktamath, 1998a: 30.

    Holotype; male; 8a5197d5-d595-4b64-b82f-3dd7460b65ad; deposited at: University of Agricultural Sciences, Bengaluru, India (UASB); India: Maharastra: Khandala, 18.4613° N, 73.2236° E, 6.xi.1991, grasses, Coll. C.A. Viraktamath

  • Maiestas belona (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Webb & Viraktamath, 2009a: 21.
  • Maiestas belonus (Dash & Viraktamath, 1998) in Srinivasa & Meshram, 2017: 1627.

Nomenclature references (3)

  • Dash, P.C. & Viraktamath, C.A. (1998a) A review of the Indian and Nepalese grass feeding leafhopper genus Deltocephalus (Homoptera: Cicadellidae) with description of new species. Hexapoda (Insecta Indica), 10(1-2), 1–59.
  • Webb, M.D. & Viraktamath, C.A. (2009a) Annotated check-list, generic key and new species of Old World Deltocephalini leafhoppers with nomenclatorial changes in the Deltocephalus group and other Deltocephalinae (Hemiptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Cicadellidae). Zootaxa, 2163, 1–64.
  • Srinivasa, R.N. & Meshram, N.M. (2017) Note on genus Maiestas (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) with diagnosis of important species. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies, 5(5), 1616–1636.
Gender, form, and etymology

Etymology:

Ancient Greek (βελόνη, belóne): needle, garfish

Stats

Summary of taxonomic names by rank, showing valid extant names, fossil names, invalid names, and total counts.
TaxonValid names
RankExtantFossilInvalidTotal
Species1023